[Sugar-devel] hello from Nexcopy - Recycle USB

[Peter Robinson]

I can create a customer image for a 2Gb stick with some other fixes
pulled in that can just be dd:ed onto the stick by nexcopy but I won't
be able to do it until next weekend.

Peter

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> Replication is not the issue (we have Nexcopy, after all). So a 2GB
> image with some persistent storage, even if liveinstall doesn't work,
> would be the target.
>
> -walter
>
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Thomas Gilliard
> <satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
>> On 01/20/2013 11:20 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there no longer a 2GB image available?
>>>
>>> -walter
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Thomas Gilliard
>>> <satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 01/18/2013 06:57 PM, Greg Morris, Nexcopy wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok. Great. I can send them to that address.
>>>>>
>>>>> Waiting for download link and we'll get them done Tues and ship out.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Greg
>>>>> ••••••••••••••••••••
>>>>> Sorry for the short eMail, sent from my iPhone.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 18, 2013, at 5:39 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey. That's great!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm CCing Peter and Thom to see what image they recommend.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe the best address would be:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Walter Bender
>>>>>> 22 Central St.
>>>>>> Newton, MA 02466
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Many thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -walter
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Greg Morris - Nexcopy
>>>>>> <gregm at nexcopy.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Walter,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I hope this email finds you well and happy new year!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We have about 200 drives we can send you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -- can you provide the most current download link for Sugar?
>>>>>>> -- can you provide an address to send the USB sticks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If there is anything new you can report...I'd be happy to hear it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Respectfully,
>>>>>>> Greg
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> GREG MORRIS | NEXCOPY INC.
>>>>>>> P: 949 481 6478 X 112 | email: gregm at nexcopy.com | web:
>>>>>>> www.nexcopy.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Walter Bender
>>>>>> Sugar Labs
>>>>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>>>
>>>> Walter;
>>>> Look at this tutorial [1]
>>>>
>>>>   [1]
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tutorials/Installation/How_to_make_a_SoaS.img_file_for_repeated_installs_to_4_GB_USB%27s
>>>>
>>>>   Download a prebuilt .img file:
>>>> http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_8.img   3.7G download
>>>>
>>>> This command can be repeated for multiple USB's:
>>>>
>>>> Note it takes about 10 minutes to write to each 4 GB USB
>>>>
>>>> use "mount" command to confirm USB device name and edit: of=/dev/sd(x)
>>>>
>>>> [root at localhost Desktop]# dd if=Soas_8.img of=/dev/sdc bs=2M
>>>> 1912+0 records in
>>>> 1912+0 records out
>>>> 4009754624 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 587.133 s, 6.8 MB/s
>>>> [root at localhost Desktop]#
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is a real netinstall of f18 sugar-desktop to a 4 GB USB with
>>>> firstboot
>>>> not yet run*
>>>> It boots from the USB once written (see tutorial
>>>> root=sugarroot
>>>> *user name and colors are set in firstboot
>>>>
>>>> Tom Gilliard
>>>> satellit
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Walter;
>> The problem is that the command "liveinst" does not install to USB at the
>> moment
>>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896687
>> So it is now only possible to create a USB stick with the dd command:
>>
>>  [root at localhost RC4]# dd if=Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso of=/dev/sd(x)*
>> bs=2M
>>  288+0 records in
>>  288+0 records out
>>  603979776 bytes (604 MB) copied, 177.758 s, 3.4 MB/s
>>
>> of=/dev/sd(x)* use mount command to get device name of the mounted USB
>>
>> -Note that it will have no persistence
>>
>> The 4 GB .img file has persistence as it is a regular ext4 netinstall of
>> Sugar-desktop to USB (Thus larger in size)
>>
>>  http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_8.img   3.7G download
>>
>> It would be easier to just use the above command from fedora 18 terminal
>> repeatedly on each new 2 GB USB using the downloaded file;
>>
>> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/releases/18/Spins/x86_64/Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso
>> -Note it only takes about 3 minutes per USB  (177.758 s)
>>
>> Cordially;
>>
>> Tom Gilliard
>> satellit on #sugar
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org